Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 24:7,8
The top of a rock - The blood was poured upon a naked, dry, rock where it could not be absorbed or unnoticed.
The top of a rock - The blood was poured upon a naked, dry, rock where it could not be absorbed or unnoticed.
Verse Ezekiel 24:7. _FOR HER BLOOD IS IN THE MIDST OF HER_] She gloried in her idol sacrifices; she offered them upon a rock, where the blood should _remain evident_; and she poured none upon the _gr...
Ezekiel 24:1. The exact date is given by the prophet. It was the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year. What happened also on that date we find recorded in 2 Kings 25:1: “And it came to pass...
EZEKIEL 24. THE LAST MESSAGE BEFORE THE FALL OF THE CITY. Ezekiel 24:1. The Rusty Caldron. We now reach the last message delivered by Ezekiel before the fall of the city; and, curiously enough, it was...
NOT. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version omitted this "not". to cover it with duet. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 17:13). 10 SPICE IT WELL, &c.: or, boil it down till only the bones are l...
_top of a rock_ A BARE ROCK. Job 16:18, "O earth cover not my blood." Blood uncovered cries for vengeance. Cf. Leviticus 17:13; Deuteronomy 12:16. On the idea of the openness of Jerusalem's sin cf....
The rusted caldron set on the fire (1) Ezekiel 24:1. A caldron is to be set on the fire, filled with water, pieces of flesh cast into it and fuel piled under it that it may boil furiously. The caldro...
SHE POURED IT NOT UPON THE GROUND— The words allude to the command of the law, that they should cover the blood of any beast or other living creature with dust: a precept intended not only to prevent...
A. The Parable of the Cooking Pot 24:1-14 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came unto me in the ninth year, the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying, (2) Son of man, write for yours...
III. A SIGNIFICANT DATE 24:1-27 Chapter 24 begins with an important chronological note. According to verse one Nebuchadnezzar began his attack against Jerusalem in the ninth year (of Zedekiah), the te...
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; SHE SET IT - the blood which she shed. UPON THE TOP OF A ROCK -...
THE ALLEGORY OF THE BOILING CALDRON. EZEKIEL'S BEREAVEMENT AND SIGNIFICANT SILENCE This prophecy is dated on the day on which the siege of Jerusalem began. Ezekiel is commanded by God to note the date...
THE TOP OF A ROCK] RV 'the bare rock.' Jerusalem's bloodshed was open and unconcealed....
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 24 * The punishment of Judah would happen soon. The *Lord c...
(6-14) These verses contain the application of the parable in two distinct parts (Ezekiel 24:6), but in such wise that the literal and the figurative continually run together. A new feature, that of t...
UPON THE TOP OF A ROCK. — Crimes of violence are continually charged upon Jerusalem (Ezekiel 22:12; Ezekiel 23:37, &c.)_,_ but here she is further reproached with such indifference to these crimes tha...
כִּ֤י דָמָהּ֙ בְּ תֹוכָ֣הּ הָיָ֔ה עַל ־צְחִ֥י
FINAL ORACLES AGAINST JERUSALEM Ezekiel 22:1; Ezekiel 24:1 THE close of the first period of Ezekiel's work was marked by two dramatic incidents, which made the day memorable both in the private life...
The final prophecy in this division described the coming destruction of the city. This was first done under the parable of a cauldron set on a fire, filled with water, and made to boil. The prophet ap...
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a (i) rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; (i) The city showed her cruelty to all the world, and was not as...
_She hath. Septuagint, "I have let it corrupt upon. I have not," &c., (ver. 8.; Haydock) as if God spoke. The Jews had committed murder without fear. They had naturally a horror for blood, and the law...
The parable of a boiling pot, with the choice pieces boiled over the fire, and then left to burn, became a very striking representation of the fiery indignation of the Lord against Jerusalem. Her scum...
In chapter 24 definitive judgment is pronounced against Jerusalem, who was not even ashamed of her sins. The day that Nebuchadnezzar lays siege to Jerusalem, the wife of the prophet dies; and, althoug...
FOR HER BLOOD IS IN THE MIDST OF HER,.... The blood of innocent persons shed in the midst of her, openly and publicly, cried for vengeance: SHE SET IT UPON THE TOP OF A ROCK; where it could not soak...
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; Ver. 7. _For her blood is in the midst of her._] She careth not who...
Eze. 24:6, 7. The Law required that they should not eat flesh with the blood, but that the blood should be poured on the ground and covered with dust. Leviticus 17:13. Flesh dressed and eaten with the...
_Wherefore thus saith the Lord_ Here begins an explication of the preceding symbolical representation; _Wo to the bloody city_ Jerusalem, which is this pot; _whose scum is therein_ Whose filthiness, o...
VISION OF THE BOILING CALDRON...
For her blood, that shed in the wickedness of her murderous actions, IS IN THE MIDST OF HER; SHE SET IT UPON THE TOP OF A ROCK, on the bare rock, shamelessly exposing her wickedness before the eyes of...
1-14 The pot on the fire represented Jerusalem besieged by the Chaldeans: all orders and ranks were within the walls, prepared as a prey for the enemy. They ought to have put away their transgression...
HER BLOOD, innocent blood which she hath shed, IS IN THE MIDST OF HER; openly and publicly, without fear, or shame, or reluctance. SET IT UPON THE TOP OF A ROCK, where it might be long seen, cared not...
Ezekiel 24:7 blood H1818 midst H8432 set H7760 (H8804) top H6706 rock H5553 pour H8210 (H8804) ground...
“For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance I have set her blood...
CONTENTS: Parable of the boiling pot. Ezekiel again made a sign to Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, King of Babylon. CONCLUSION: There is a day coming when it will be said, «He that is filthy, let...
Ezekiel 24:1. _In the ninth year,_ from Jehoiachin's captivity; or the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. 2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 52:4. Jehoiachin, who is the same with Jeconiah, reigned one year before h...
_Set on a pot._ THE BOILING CAULDRON: THE DOINGS AND DOOM OF A WICKED CITY I. The sins of any city are an offence to God. 1. Seen by Him. The whole city in its greed for gain, its intemperance, its...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 24:1 The two losses recounted here almost certainly belong together, and they come at a turning point in Ezekiel’s prophetic career. The first loss (vv. Ezekiel 24:1) is that o
(Ezekiel 24:3.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet illustrates the destruction of Jerusalem by the allegory of a cauldron which he was to set on the fire, and having put water into it, to boil therein choi...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 24:1 IN THE NINTH YEAR. We pass from the date of Ezekiel 20:1 to B.C. 590, and the very day is identified with that on which the army of Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem ...
Now again, chapter 24, In the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month (Ezekiel 24:1), Now notice this. He's in Babylon and on this, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in th...
1 Kings 21:19; Deuteronomy 12:16; Deuteronomy 12:24; Isaiah 26:21;...
The blood — Innocent blood which she hath shed. The top of a rock — Where it might be long seen. To cover it — These butchers of innocent ones leave their blood uncovered....